Yavne, just YavneThe modern city of Yavne, located between Tel Aviv and Ashdod, has been a prolific site for archaeological discoveries in 2021. About 1,500 years ago, Yavne was an industrial center for wine production, producing approximately a half million gallons of wine per year. Perhaps the rarest Yavne discovery was an intact chicken egg from 1,000 years ago, found in the remains of a privy. There is little archaeological record of this period, though, so the discovery linking a biblical name to the era is notable. Gordon Govier is the editor Artifax, a quarterly biblical archaeology newsmagazine, and host of the podcast The Book & The Spade.

Source: Libya Today December 21, 2021 16:36 UTC